Sundry links from around the Web:
- In honour of Leonard Cohen’s 75th birthday yesterday, 1 Heck of a Guy comes up with an incomplete list of Cohen’s many nicknames. Quillblog favourites: #22: Master of the Egg Salad Sandwich and #60: Poet of Swinging Suicides
- A 700-plus page “utopian fantasy” starring superheroes Bill Cosby and Yoko Ono? Yes, it’s Ralph Nader’s “quirky fiction debut”
- Can’t get enough of Dan Brown mania? Here are 10 titles to tide you over after The Last Symbol tsunami
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Giving Tree? EW’s Shelf Life picks classic children’s books they’d like to see given the Hollywood treatment
- Margaret Atwood tells The New York Times why she scares herself
- Despite previous concerns, the Philadelphia Free Library System is NOT shutting down
- » Margaret Atwood: poet, novelist, blogger?
- » Bookmarks: Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, the Brontë sisters, and more
- » Bookmarks: Birthday wishes for Margaret Atwood, and more
- » Bookmarks: Margaret Atwood on friendship, Stephen King in Toronto, and more
- » Bookmarks: more praise for Margaret Atwood, Ted Kennedy, and David Mitchell
